• Swoop Meet THIS WEEKEND
• Load Organizing Seminar June 19-20
• PD Factory Team Training/Coaching June 21-27
• TSL Meet 2
  

Finally, summer is here! Over the last month, things have been booming here at Spaceland. We are flying each dayduring the week and on the weekends, we have multiple aircraft turning all day. This is a great opportunity for you tocome on out after work and get a few jumps in. Don’t forget, we have a tailgate aircraft here to jump if you so desire. It will be leaving soon, traveling to different DZ’s for the seasonal boogie circuit. To confirm, we will be flying the Skyvan this weekend.

Canopy Piloting Swoop Meet THIS WEEKEND

www.texasswoopers.com Got a craving to swoop the world's biggest swoop pond? Want to learn how? Come on out this weekend June 5-6 for a day of official practice and free coaching by Aggie Dave (Saturday) followed by a day of competition (Sunday) The courses will be set up for us to play on so come get wet! On Sunday there will be 3 disciplines Speed, Distance and Accuracy. All swoopers are encouraged to come out and participate. As always everyone is welcome to watch the show. See you tomorrow for practice. Another training day/competition weekend will be held at Spaceland August 7-8, shortly before the 2010 USPA National Skydiving Championships of Canopy Piloting on September 1-4.

Load Organizing Seminar June 19-20

Have you ever wanted to be a well-known Load Organizer? Now is your chance to learn new techniques and secretes of organizing successful dive formations. Objective: The Load Organizer Seminar is designed to instill the basic abilities and skills necessary for qualified skydivers to perform the job of a Load Organizer at a specified drop zone. The course consists of classroom activities, role play scenarios, and the organizing and debrief of actual skydives. Format: The LO Seminar is designed to be a two day, weekend course. It can be shortened to a one day course under certain circumstances depending on class size, trainee abilities and drop zone manager specifications. The second day can also be abbreviated by minimizing the actual jumping phase by each trainee. The course will consist of several hours of classroom work during which the role of the LO is discussed in detail and the “secret stuff” needed to be a good, or great, organizer is disclosed. This section is supplemented with hands-on activity, including role playing by the trainees to provide a more ‘real world’ environment. Course materials covering all phases and responsibilities of the LO function will be provided to each trainee. On the afternoon of the first day of the course, the trainees will begin their organized jumps, with post jump debriefs conducted by the trainees, and by the instructors. The trainees will be evaluated for both their ground and air work. This process will continue into the second day of the course and will be followed by further discussion of the aspects of “special organizing”, i.e., boogies, ‘invitational’s’, and record-type events. Special emphasis relating to specific drop zone requirements encountered when operating as a Load Organizer will be included in the courseware. Costs: The cost of the course is $120 per trainee, plus the purchase, at reduced price [through Aerodyne], of the newest “Book of Skydiving Formations” [by Mike Truffer] by each trainee. Additionally, each trainee will be expected to pay for their jumps, at their normal jump ticket prices, whether acting as an LO on that jump, or being a part of the ‘organized’ skydive of another LO trainee. The number of jumps required will be determined by class format and number of trainees. Skydive Spaceland is building a Load Organizing Program for this season and this class is a pre-requisite for becoming a load organizer here. This is a great opportunity to invest in your skills if you enjoy teaching and spreading knowledge to other skydivers, plus it never hurts to be able to make some Free skydives. If you are interested in this class or interested in becoming an organizer for Spaceland, contact eric@skydivespaceland.com

PD Factory Team Training/Coaching June 21-27

The PD Factory Team will be here training in 2 weeks. They will be making 10-12 jumps per day, training at the Spaceland Swoop Park. If you want to make a bunch of skydives in a short period of time, or if you want to train beside the best swoopers in the world, take a few days off and come out to Spaceland. The swoop courses will be set up at the swoop park. The PD Factory Team has agreed to stay extra days after their training camp to do some canopy coaching. So far we have 5 people signed up to take advantage of coaching with the best. So far the coaching dates are July 1 + 2. The team will stay longer (weekend of 3rd and 4th) if that is better for your schedule. If interested contact eric@skydivespaceland.com. We will need to know soon for logistical purposes. PDFT offers a wide range of coaching from entry level to advanced (Essential Skills to High Performance techniques for competitions.) Remember June 21-27, the DZ will be flying 10-12 loads each day so come out and JUMP. INFO for Coaching.

Texas Skydiving League Meet 2

With the TSL Meet 2 completed, teams are well into theirtraining season. This long winter weather has kept a lot of theteams on the ground across the country but when it’s sunny outside, your teams are training hard for this years nationals. Spaceland Lite (Christy West, Devon Shows, Katrina Autry, Richard Rotherty and Cory Kosan on video) took 1st in the Open division scoring 18 points in Rd. 2 which helped their 12.8 average. In the Intermediate Class, Spaceland Mamba took 1st, scoring a 14 in Rd.1 helping their 11.8 average. And in the Rookie division Gravity Assassins took 1st. News: Skydive Houston’s team, Team Jaeger (Intermediate) (Potter, IT, Nathan Wernig, Kavin Manickaraj, Tuna on video) beat out their competition Hot Flash, also from SD Houston. Where did these guys come from? These guys do not have many jumps together but they were out to have fun and learn along the way. Having the right attitude will take you to vthe top. This is what its all about. Nice job guys. www.texasskydivingleague.org for complete scores.

New Graduates/Recent Accomplishments

More Upcoming Events

We've got a lot of events planned for 2010, including big-way sequential, Texas Skydiving League meets, ratings courses, and much more! Keep an eye on the events calendar for the latest updates. Here's what's going on through May so far:

Have fun and play safe! We look forward to seeing you soon at Skydive Spaceland!

Comments? Email Eric: eric@skydivespaceland.com.